Update: Juerd is correct in his post below. I made a mistake in my post regarding the split operator. I have corrected this.

Here is an example of File::Basename, applied to the current directory. This is not perfect, but should get you started. 
#/usr/bin/perl -w

use File::Basename;
use strict;

my @files = <*>;

foreach my $file (@files) {
    my ($name,$dir,$type) = fileparse($file,'\..*');
    print sprintf("file= %30s", $name), sprintf("  ext= %10s", $type),
+"\n";

}

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you can refine this by crafting a better regex as the second argument to fileparse. This module is overkill unless you are dealing with full filepaths. for a single directory you could just use 
my($filename,$ext) = split(/\./,$file);

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or something similar.

In reply to Re: Extract string from rear of string by thunders
in thread Extract string from rear of string by Anonymous Monk

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